Method of heating feed-cookers



(No Model.)

J- CAL-DON. METHOD OF HEATING FEED COOKERS.

No. 600,512. I Patented Mar. 15,1898.

7D I C DJ 6' WITNESSES: INVE/VTUI? H Q. #m.

' BY I ATTORNEY;

TNE Noam PETERS c0. Pmrmuma, WASHINGTON, n. cy

Uivrrnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GALDON, OF BENKELMAN, NEBRASKA.

M ETHOD OF H EATING FEED- -COOKERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,512, dated March15, 1898.

Application filed July 19, 1897- Serial No. 645,199. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: tacle is shown as square, though one of anyBe it known that 1, JOHN OALDON, residing other suitable conformationcould be used. at Benkelman, in the county of Dundy and It is desirable,however, to have a specially State of Nebraska, have invented certainusetight and snug fitting lid to cover the cook- 5 ful Improvements inMethods of Heating in g-receptacle.

Feed-Cookers; and I do hereby declare that In the use of a cookeradapted to hold apthe following is a full, clear, and exactdescripproximately five bushels of feed I would first tion of theinvention, such as will enable othprovide the main casing or housingupon the ers skilled in the art to which it appertains bottom with aboutten inches of fresh stable- IO to make and use the same, reference beinghad manure. This would then be liberally sprinto the accompanyingdrawing, which forms a kled with lime. I would then place within part ofthis specification. the housing the cooker E and add another Thisinvention has relation to a novel layer of manure, which would again besprinmethod of heating feed-cookers. kled with lime, this operationbeing continued I 5 The object of my invention is to provide a until themain housing was filled. The top method that shall be simple enough sothat would then be sprinkled with blue-stone, the any operator ofordinary intelligence can use whole being moistened with a solution ofsulthe same, and the apparatus used in conjuncfuric acid. tiontherewithis of the simplest construction. In cooking a batch of fivebushels of feed, 20 By means of my method of heating feedfor instance, Iwould use with a suitable cookers the material may be thoroughly amountof stable-manure one bushel of uncooked without scorching or burning,and the slaked lime, one pound of blue-stone, and device used inconjunction therewith is noone pint of sulfuric acid diluted in fourgalticeable because of its extreme simplicity. ions of water. The lid Fis then closed, when 25 In the accompanyingdrawing Ihave shown theproducts decompose, andv in this operaa sectional view of an ordinarycasing, showtion sufficient heat is generated to thoroughly ing thefeed-receptacle placed therein, the lid cook the five bushels of feed inabout twentyof the casing being shown as raised. four hours.

In a great many sections of the country, es- The device is noticeablebecause of its ex- 3o pecially in the prairie regions, where wood tremesimplicity; and now,

and coal are quite expensive and scarce, it is Having thus described mysaid invention, a matter of no little expense for the farmers what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by to cook the feed for the stock,especially in United States Letters Patent, is winter, and as thefeeding of cooked food has The method of cooking, which consists in 3 5been found to give the most beneficial results surrounding a suitablecooker, first, with alit is desirable to prepare this food in the mostternate layers of fresh stable-manure and u ninexpensive manner, and theaim of my inslaked lime, andtlren sprinkling the whole vention is toprovide a method that shall be with blue-stone andasolution of sulfuricacid, both simple and comparatively inexpensive. approximately in theproportions set forth. 8 5 40 In my improved method I use an ordinary Intestimony whereof I affix my signature housing, which may comprise acasinghaving in presence of two witnesses. the bottom A and sides B andthe su ortingis sills D D therein and provided with n ordi- JOHN if narylid F. Within this housing is placed an Witnesses; 5 ordinary cooker E,having a top a and an op- T NAGLE erating-handle 2. In the drawing thisrecep- GEQ iv S

